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Today's Date: 25 May 2012
Last Updated: 25 May 2012 13:00:35 CIT
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Crime
Robbers strike again overnight in George Town's Palm Dale neighbourhood. 
 An ambulance crash sends two crew members to the hospital. 
Police have placed a woman in custody in connection with the death of her sister, whose body was found buried inside a house in Portmore, St Catherine on Monday.
Cayman makes nice with a Philippines government delegation, trying to ward off what could be a major blow to its local workforce.
The number of non-Caymanians working for the Cayman Islands government dropped by more than a third between 2008 and 2011.
The long-awaited government pensions and labour revamp is planned within the next few months.
Calmore Wilbur Range, 40, is scheduled to appear in Grand Court on Friday on a charge of attempted robbery.
Sean Roy Scott, 21, was sentenced to 18 months imprisonment for buglary after the court did not accept that his fingerprints at the premises could be 10 years old.
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Cayman has been honoured with even more scuba diving awards.
The Young Cayman Leadership Awards show will take place Saturday, 12 May at the Ritz-Carlton, Grand Cayman. The five finalists are Garth Arch, Dara Flowers Burke, Casandra Morris, Orchid Morrison and Samantha Widmer.
Kurt Stevenson Carter, 22, is scheduled to return to court on 7 February for charges including possession of an unlicensed .38 revolver.
Red Sail's new building at Morritt's in East End, Grand Cayman, has been several years in the making.
Sunshine Suites has been recognised by major media as a top destination.
The public is invited to join Premier McKeeva Bush and Department of Tourism representatives at the George Town district Tourism Awareness public meeting Tuesday, February 7th from 7 until 9 PM at the South Sound Community Centre
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Business
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The Greek Prime Minister's office says crucial austerity talks between the country's coalition party leaders are due to be pushed back until Tuesday.
Business
France and Germany called Monday for the creation of a special account to ensure that billions of euros in bailout money for Greece goes directly to paying down debt, just as Greek politicians struggle to agree a fresh austerity plan that is being pushed for by international creditors.
Business
The German government says strong demand from outside the eurozone helped the country's industrial orders rise a stronger-than-expected 1.7 percent in December.
Business
Mitsubishi Motors Corp. says it will stop building cars at its Netherlands factory — the company's only plant in Western Europe — at the end of 2012.
Business
The pressure was on. The tension was thick. And then, there were yawns in between.
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The white collar boxing show at Treasure Island was so successful that plans are well under way for the next one in the summer.
The New York Giants now can say their stunning victory over the New England Patriots four years ago was not a fluke.
Prince Harry is set to line up on the starting blocks next to the world’s fastest man next month.
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World
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Tributes poured in to Queen Elizabeth II on Monday as she marked 60 years on the throne with a message vowing to continue serving the British people.
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The Obama administration closed the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Monday and pulled all American diplomats out of violence-wracked Syria as the U.S. stepped up pressure on President Bashar Assad to leave power.
World
The right-wing extremist who has admitted killing 77 people in the worst peacetime massacre that Norway has ever seen told a court Monday that he deserved a medal of honor for the bloodshed and demanded to be set free.
World
For the first time in nearly two decades of escalating tensions over Iran's nuclear program, world leaders are genuinely concerned that an Israeli military attack on the Islamic Republic could be imminent — an action that many fear might trigger a wider war, terrorism and global economic havoc.
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Greek authorities say they will start work next month on a 10-kilometer (6-mile) fence on the country's border with Turkey to deter waves of illegal immigration.
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Caymanian Jamie McDowall, 24, will soon join America’s elite force of fighter pilots.
Go Pro Diving in Cayman has qualified eight new divemasters.
Ain't no hoonin' around, mate. Cayman's Australian restaurant, Tukka, has a bonzer new mural.
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Government transparency in the Cayman Islands is improving, thanks to the Freedom of Information Law.
Letters writer wants Caymanians to be more united.
 
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